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--- cards:corner-shorted_cards_locating [2013/03/28 15:53] – tag added denisbehr
+++ cards:corner-shorted_cards_locating [2014/08/19 08:35] – earlier Thompson reference denisbehr
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 ====== Corner-Shorted Cards, Locating ======
-In //Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic// (1967, p. 150), Vernon published the idea of tapping the deck on one corner to cause a corner-shorted card to jog from the edge. The idea was explained in more detail in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13100/The+Lost+Inner+Secrets/31|The Vernon Chronicles, Vol. 1]]// (1987, p. 2), in which Vernon said he had learned the idea from a gambler in San Francisco. Ed Marlo, in his //[[http://askalexander.org/display/11035/Advanced+Fingertip+Control/67|Advanced Fingertip Control]]// (1970, p. 64) writes that he had been using this technique "for years". How far one can take this vague statement and its intention is impossible to know from his wording. But this came three years after Vernon had published the idea, yet Marlo chooses not to mention it.
+J. G. Thompson, Jr. published the idea of tapping the deck on one corner to cause a corner-shorted card to jog from the edge as a method of locating a reversed card in “A Super Strip Deck”, a deck in which one corner of all cards is cut short (see also [[cards:corner-shorted_cards_and_deck|Corner-Shorted Deck]]). It is the sixth method of locating the card in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/37595/Linking+Ring/46|The Linking Ring]]//, Vol. 23 No. 8, Oct. 1943, p. 46.
+In //[[http://askalexander.org/display/10977/The+Patented+Shuffle/118|The Patented Shuffle]]//, 1964, p. 10 of the section "I Shuffled the Cards", Marlo applied the principle to a "Marlo Short Card", which is a card with a one-sided stripper cut. Vernon published the idea again (with a traditional corner-shorted card) in Ganson's //Dai Vernon's Ultimate Secrets of Card Magic//, 1967, p. 150. It was explained in more detail in //[[http://askalexander.org/display/13100/The+Lost+Inner+Secrets/31|The Vernon Chronicles, Vol. 1]]//, 1987, p. 2, in which Vernon said he had learned the idea from a gambler in San Francisco.
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